Light foxing/spotting to the top- and bottom-edge of the page block. Otherwise a clean, solid copy. Biography of American critic and commentator for the New Yorker, who was also a member of the Algonquin Round Table along with Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and others during the 1920s. 388 pages with Index and black and white photos. View more info

Just a trace of shelf wear, otherwise a Fine copy. 456 pages, illustrated with black and white photographs. Lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed and signed to the previous owner by both the author and Marvin Zindler. View more info

Gift inscription on the front free endpaper covers half the page, otherwise a clean, fine copy. 208 pages with Bibliography and Index. 75 illustrations, 12 in color. From the publisher: "In this engaging book, Deborah Alun-Jones selects a range of authors from the seventeenth century to the twenty-first, for whom the rectory was either the childhood home that nurtured their creative talent or the place they chose to live as an adult and from which they drew inspiration. ... View more info

Some age toning around the extremities. Glassine cover, no slipcase. A facsimile reproduction of the original 1883 edition. Cover photos of Jesse James and his wife from the N.H. Rose Collection, courtesy of the Division of Manuscripts, University of Oklahoma Library. 96 pages, illustrated with the original drawings and color added by Carol Rogers. View more info

A structurally sound copy with a good bit of scattered foxing, particularly around the endpapers and plates. Green cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Top edge gilt (scratched and somewhat faded), while the fore-edge and bottom edge are untrimmed. Looks like a book plate was removed. 214 pages with 21 illustrations, including one in color, plus ads for related titles from the publisher. View more info

Edition and publication date not indicated, but a letter from the author, which accompanies the book, indicates 1947 as the year the book was printed. The book shows just a trace of wear, the jacket has some chipping and rubbing. This copy either belonged to or was intended for Jacqueline Kennedy, while in the White House, because of the author's association, as a journalist, with her husband and father-in-law, Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. during the World War II era in Great ... View more info

Wear to the corners and spine ends. The spine has a mottled appearance, perhaps the result of insect damage. Browning to the front endpapers. Interior clean, binding square and tight. 309 pages, including Appendices and Bibliographical Note, followed by a section of 25 plates, a sampling of Martin's work. View more info

Light wear to boards. Full-page gift inscription on front free endpaper. Jacket price-clipped, worn at corners and spine ends. Couple of tears on front panel. A book about the author's mother, his book The Exorcist, and life after death. View more info